Participant Benefits

Why Educators Like the NASP Program:

It also develops and improves muscle
tone, and endurance and flexibility. It develops hand - eye coordination
and dexterity and teaches the importance of focus / concentration.

Educators say they are starved for new, effective ways to
engage and teach their students. Archery fits the bill!

What the teachers are saying:

School attendance is improved

Student behavior is improved all day

Kids, regardless of gender, stature and
ability have success

Students are buying personal archery
equipment

After-school archery clubs are forming

Archery adds diversity and
“something new and
exciting” in PE class!

What the students are saying:

(taken from a pilot program survey with accuracy +/- 2.7%.
55% of the students surveyed were male; 45% were female):

89% enjoy the class

62% have never shot a bow before

73% do not own archery equipment

49% want to own their own equipment

Most student archers wanted to use their new life skill. Archery has increased their school pride and
positively impacted their self-esteem.

59% want to be target archers

38% are interested in bow hunting

Teaching archery in the schools is not
a new idea.

Prior to the NASP program, many archery programs disappeared
for several reasons:

The archery teacher moved on.

New teachers lacked the proper
experience and/or expertise in archery.

The equipment wore out, broke or
disappeared.

Education criteria changed but the
archery classes did not.

There was no connection among schools
in regards to the archery program.

The archery industry reports increased
sales of archery equipment since NASP started. Equipment purchases
produced more excise taxes at the manufacturers level which were
apportioned, through the Pittman Robertson Act, back to the states to use
for wildlife management.

Maryland’s NASP addresses all of these
issues. Educators say they are starved for new, effective ways to engage
and teach their students. Archery fits the bill!

The Maryland Archery in the Schools Program
is brought to you in Partnership by the Maryland Bowhunters Society.